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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:50:41 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:45:24AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote:
>>>Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time?
>>>Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the
>>>computer?  I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few
>>>packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files.
>>
>>mirrors.lst is updated twice a day.  setup.bz2 is updated frequently.
>>It is possible to add the kind of functionality that you're talking
>>about, though.  It's just a simple matter of programming.
>>
>>Unfortunately, the wisher to doer ratio for cygwin is pretty high so it
>>is unlikely that anyone would be implementing anything like this.
>
>FWIW, someone posted a patch just two days ago with one possible way of
>addressing this issue:
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00399.html> Which, of course,
>just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help
>sometimes...  :-)

So, in this case the "doer" would be a setup maintainer who could review
and integrate the patch.

cgf

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